MOVED: Cutting Spam

grahame

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MOVED: Cutting Spam

« on: December 08, 2012, 06:12:12 »

This topic has been moved to Frequent Posters Club.

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=11652.0

In order to reduce the number of sign-up requests that the administrators have to vet, we have introduced a system which helps to reduce sign-ups that we consider to be spammerous.

The discussion has been moved to "frequent posters'; if you feel that (as a guest / new user) you have been unjustly stopped, please send me an email. See more at http://www.wellho.net/mouth/3946_Moving-from-a-warning-system-to-a-control-system-PHP-forum-spammers.html - Graham


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grahame

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Re: MOVED: Cutting Spam

« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 06:05:40 »

From my (spam) email this morning ...

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We create a profile for you on thousands
of different forums, and add a link to your
website on each of the profile.

- Submission to thousands of forums
- Permanent One-way Links
- Ownership of all the accounts created
- Detailed Submission Report

We provide different packages at different prices.

For Full Details please read the attached .html file

... it's no wonder that we have to take some measures to avoid off-topic, profile-raising, advert-intending signups!

The major topic remains in "Frequent posters" ... I can confirm that signups are now at a more manageable level for the admins; mostly clear cases too in one direction or the other. Very occasionally we get it wrong and end up having to apologise to a genuine person who's feathers are ruffled - sad that we have to be so careful.


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grahame

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Re: MOVED: Cutting Spam

« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2014, 07:49:00 »

Our system of identifying potential folks signing up for "off-topic, profile-raising, advert-intending" posting - and doing so across thousands of forums - has dramatically cut the amount of crap that the admins have had to go through for the past 2 years.

I always have / had a concern that we might also catch a few genuine requests, and the system that we're using (a learning system) has a very long memory. So I'm doing a bit of bookkeeping. If you have found that you can't access the forum from certain places, please try again and you may find the problem is cured ... let me know either way (now works for me, still a problem) as I need everyone's help to know whether I've helped or hindered.


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Puffing Billy

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Re: MOVED: Cutting Spam

« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2014, 21:26:28 »

I can't imagine how anyone would have a problem cutting spam. How on earth would you manage with stewing steak?


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grahame

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Re: MOVED: Cutting Spam

« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2014, 21:44:28 »

Quote from: Puffing Billy on October 15, 2014, 21:26:28

I can't imagine how anyone would have a problem cutting spam. How on earth would you manage with stewing steak?

I'm sure we would get our teeth into it Grin


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